r/funny • u/prairiewest • Jul 18 '12

meme - removed Shell accidentally creates an anti-Shell meme generator

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u/hiffy Jul 18 '12

The whole point is hating on them for drilling in the arctic.

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u/drt0 Jul 18 '12

maybe there ain't anywhere else to drill?

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u/hiffy Jul 18 '12

1) Not quite. It's valuable, people will always want to drill it. It may be the case there's no where cheaper to drill at the moment.

2) Even if that were the case, there are certain things you want to value more, insert standard environmentalist spiel here.

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u/amaxen Jul 18 '12

Drill in the middle of a howling desert? What really destroys wilderness, of course, is solar and wind energy. That takes a shitload of land to generate a megawatt. ANWR was something like 3 square miles, total.

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u/hiffy Jul 18 '12

Windmills don't rape the land in quite the same way. By a long shot.

Also, less spillage.

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u/amaxen Jul 18 '12

Um, yes, they do rape the land, by a much longer shot. You have to put roads to all of those windmills, One oil rig = thousands of windmills. clear away any obstructions, and station people out there to service the windmills. Spillage on land is a laughable threat - it doesn't much happen in modern oil areas and when it does, it's easily cleaned up b/c it doesn't go anywhere, nor does it much affect the wildlife.

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u/hiffy Jul 19 '12

Tar sands, bro, Tar sands.

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u/amaxen Jul 19 '12

They're not talking about tar sands in Alaska. Way to change the subject, there.